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one moment was when moderator jim lehrere declined to take the debate to another topic. analysts say the ability for people to comment on everything from the moderator to who they think is winning is a game changer. during the evident, several accounts sprung up especially after this comment about pbs funding. >> i like big bird, i like you too but i'm not going to keep borrowing money from china to pay for it. >> reporter: appliance maker kitchen aid usa twitter page sent out this tweet after president obama told a story about his late grandmother. quote obama's grandma everyone knew it was going to be bad, she died three days before she became president. end quote. the kitchen aid tweeter account apologized and said they had removed that person from the tweeter team. companies must learn how to account for gaffes in the twitter media as they would for regular media. >>> american commented on what has been causing seats to come lose. american points to ware and tear, bad design everyone spilled soda. >>> honda is recalling more than 820,000 civics and pilot suvs because
one moment was when moderator jim lehrere declined to take the debate to another topic. analysts say the ability for people to comment on everything from the moderator to who they think is winning is a game changer. during the evident, several accounts sprung up especially after this comment about pbs funding. >> i like big bird, i like you too but i'm not going to keep borrowing money from china to pay for it. >> reporter: appliance maker kitchen aid usa twitter page sent out this...
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one moment was when moderator jim lehrere declined to take the debate to another topic. analysts say the ability for people to comment on everything from the moderator to who they think is winning is a game changer. during the evident, several accounts sprung up especially after this comment about pbs funding. >> i like big bird, i like you too but i'm not going to keep borrowing money from china to pay for it. >> reporter: appliance maker kitchen aid usa twitter page sent out this tweet after president obama told a story about his late grandmother. quote obama's grandma everyone knew it was going to be bad, she died three days before she became president. end quote. the kitchen aid tweeter account apologized and said they had removed that person from the tweeter team. companies must learn how to account for gaffes in the twitter media as they would for regular media. >>> american commented on what has been causing seats to come lose. american points to ware and tear, bad design everyone spilled soda. >>> honda is recalling more than 820,000 civics and pilot suvs because
one moment was when moderator jim lehrere declined to take the debate to another topic. analysts say the ability for people to comment on everything from the moderator to who they think is winning is a game changer. during the evident, several accounts sprung up especially after this comment about pbs funding. >> i like big bird, i like you too but i'm not going to keep borrowing money from china to pay for it. >> reporter: appliance maker kitchen aid usa twitter page sent out this...
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jim, are you abandoning sprint?
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is jim president and ceo of the mosaic company. >> thank you, jim. >> guys, look, short-term. longer term, you know who i feel about the agricultural stocks. i think they are going to be lull iss bullish. after the break i will try to make them more money. >> coming up. call street is at war over the future of one retail giant. and when the analysts disagree. it is your time to make "mad money." tonight cramer is giving you a price check on costco. >> and later seller's market. real estate stocks have been soaring. tonight cramer turns to the technicals. on a new edition of off the charts coming up on "mad money." accolade overdrive. zagat just gave hertz its top rating in 15 categories, including best overall car rental. so elevate your next car rental experience with the best. it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. [ male announcer ] how do you turn an entrepreneur's dream... ♪ into a scooter that talks to the cloud? ♪ or make 70,000 trades a second... ♪ reach one customer at a time? ♪ how do you help doctors turn billions of bytes of shared
is jim president and ceo of the mosaic company. >> thank you, jim. >> guys, look, short-term. longer term, you know who i feel about the agricultural stocks. i think they are going to be lull iss bullish. after the break i will try to make them more money. >> coming up. call street is at war over the future of one retail giant. and when the analysts disagree. it is your time to make "mad money." tonight cramer is giving you a price check on costco. >> and later...
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. >> we go to jim lehrer of pbs, moderating this debate. >> jim: i'm jim lehrer. i welcome you to the first of the 2012 presidential debates, between president barack obama, the democratic nominee, and former massachusetts governor, mitt romney, the republican nominee. this debate and the next three, two presidential, one vice-presidential, are sponsored by the commission on presidential debates. tonight's 90 minutes will be about domestic issues and will follow a format designed by the commission. there will be six roughly 15-minute segments, with two-minute answers for the first question. then open discussion for the remainder of each segment. thousands of people offered suggestions on segment subjects or questions via the internet and other means. but i made the final selections. and for the record, they were not submitted for approval to the commission or the candidates. the segments, as i announced in advance, will be three on the economy and one each on health care, the role of government and governing, with an emphasis throughout on differences, specifics a
. >> we go to jim lehrer of pbs, moderating this debate. >> jim: i'm jim lehrer. i welcome you to the first of the 2012 presidential debates, between president barack obama, the democratic nominee, and former massachusetts governor, mitt romney, the republican nominee. this debate and the next three, two presidential, one vice-presidential, are sponsored by the commission on presidential debates. tonight's 90 minutes will be about domestic issues and will follow a format designed by...
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he is elderly and can't prove his citizenship." >> jon: i hate knowing jim cramer has a father! (laughter) well, i hope he and his father are both sitting down because jim cramer also has a long-lost brother! yes! louis c.k.! you are jim cramer's long-lost brother! (applause) louis c.k . the "c.k." stands for "cramer kin." (laughter) for more on this issue we're joined by senior black correspondent larry wilmore. larry, thank you so much for joining us. (cheers and applause) larry, these -- these voter i.d. laws as we see could potentially disenfranchise thousands of voters. your reaction? >> yeah, jon, on behalf of black people i need to apologize to america. obviously these laws were meant to suppress the black vote, which has gone 95% for obama but it wound up hurting innocents like jim cramer's dad. (laughter) so sorry, old people. that (bleep) was meant for us, not for you. (laughter) >> jon: it's not -- it's not your fault. it's -- okay, so i shouldn't have -- sorry. >> look, jon, in the world of voter suppression black folks are the delicious tuna. (laughter) irresistible
he is elderly and can't prove his citizenship." >> jon: i hate knowing jim cramer has a father! (laughter) well, i hope he and his father are both sitting down because jim cramer also has a long-lost brother! yes! louis c.k.! you are jim cramer's long-lost brother! (applause) louis c.k . the "c.k." stands for "cramer kin." (laughter) for more on this issue we're joined by senior black correspondent larry wilmore. larry, thank you so much for joining us. (cheers...
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jim in arizona please, jim. >> caller: hi, jim. thanks for taking my call. i have been buying gold and silver bullion and coin. and i want to know do you think i should continue buying gold and silver or should i maybe invest in a mining company like barrick or newmont or go with a company like silver wheaton that buys the rights to those mines? >> you are in the sweet spot. silver wheaton has been a sweet stock. i like the blood lines. but i do think i'm going to stick by gold and then in the bullion as being number one. always people want me to give them a stock. i've been giving them some royalty sweet stocks. tom in california. tom. >> caller: booyah, jim. this fast-growing telecom technology provider porcera networks. they have the highest-performing products in the dpi space and their sales to tier one providers seem to be ramping up fast. >> here's what i'm going to do. there's a really nice article about me in one of the israeli papers earlier this week about how i was so prescient about allot. i am not going to opine on prosera. i will compare allt
jim in arizona please, jim. >> caller: hi, jim. thanks for taking my call. i have been buying gold and silver bullion and coin. and i want to know do you think i should continue buying gold and silver or should i maybe invest in a mining company like barrick or newmont or go with a company like silver wheaton that buys the rights to those mines? >> you are in the sweet spot. silver wheaton has been a sweet stock. i like the blood lines. but i do think i'm going to stick by gold and...
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>> caller: jim, good evening, we love jim cramer and staff in tacoma park, maryland. >> i'm loving that and my staff loves it too because they're the best there is. what's up? >> caller: please talk to us sir about pan american corporation. >> i prefer the slv, there are a lot of people @jimcramer saying i don't like silver. i don't dislike silver, i just like gold more. >> arlene in california. >> caller: jim, my stock is adonis pharmaceuticals. >> yesterday when that was down, that's one of the first times i have seen it down. this is really terrific. i want to own that. barbara in oregon. >> caller: hi, jim, i benefitted from your advice in the past for which i thank you, but i would like your opinion on excelon, exc. >> i happen to think this stock at this level is good. i would love excelon's management to come on the show and say what i think which is that i think the stock is inexpensive. go to david in california. >> caller: the stock is universal display, and the ticker is mel. >> not a fave. this is, i got to tell you, flat panel display infrastructure is so competitive. look,
>> caller: jim, good evening, we love jim cramer and staff in tacoma park, maryland. >> i'm loving that and my staff loves it too because they're the best there is. what's up? >> caller: please talk to us sir about pan american corporation. >> i prefer the slv, there are a lot of people @jimcramer saying i don't like silver. i don't dislike silver, i just like gold more. >> arlene in california. >> caller: jim, my stock is adonis pharmaceuticals. >>...
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. >> caller: boo-yah jim, it's justin. i want to get your thought about these home builders going higher? >> every time a home builder has >> every time a home builder has a dramatic decline they have been buyable. i want to own it. paul in tennessee. paul? >> caller: hey, jim i was just wanting to call and ask you about metro pcs, especially with the most recent rumors about industry consolidation. i was wondering what your thoughts were. >> it has to be sprint to buy them, or t-mobile. i don't think either is going to buy them. you should be trimming positions on a speculative story that i don't like on the fundamentals and that's how i recommend stocks, is the fundamentals, not rumors. the ball is definitely in china's court, if they come out with positive news, they could go higher, remember, you always have to look at stocks from both sides now. >>> coming up, rapid results? orasure technology a leader in diagnostic tech products. cramer is getting instant answers on this new opportunity in biotech when he talks to th
. >> caller: boo-yah jim, it's justin. i want to get your thought about these home builders going higher? >> every time a home builder has >> every time a home builder has a dramatic decline they have been buyable. i want to own it. paul in tennessee. paul? >> caller: hey, jim i was just wanting to call and ask you about metro pcs, especially with the most recent rumors about industry consolidation. i was wondering what your thoughts were. >> it has to be sprint to...
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president, you go first. >> thank you very much, jim, for this opportunity. i want to thank governor romney and the university of denver for your hospitality, a lot of points i want to make tonight, but the most important one is that 20 years ago, became the luckiest man on earth because michelle obama agreed to marry me. i want to wish you happy anniversary, and a year from now, we won't celebrate it in front of 40 million people. four years ago, we went through the worst financial crisis since the great depression. millions of jobs were lost, the auto industry was on the brink of collapse the financial system had frozen up, and because of theo resilience and determinatin of the american people, we've begun to fight our way back. over the last 30 months, we've seen 5 million jobs in the private sector created. the auto industry has come roaring back and housing has begun to rise. but we all know that we still have a lot of work to do. and so the question here tonight is not where we've been, but where we're going. governor romney has a perspective that says
president, you go first. >> thank you very much, jim, for this opportunity. i want to thank governor romney and the university of denver for your hospitality, a lot of points i want to make tonight, but the most important one is that 20 years ago, became the luckiest man on earth because michelle obama agreed to marry me. i want to wish you happy anniversary, and a year from now, we won't celebrate it in front of 40 million people. four years ago, we went through the worst financial...
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for now, from the university of denver i'm jim lehrer. thank you and good night. [ cheers and applause ] >> cenk: there you have it the first presidential debate of 2012. i have a feeling we have mixed feelings about how that debate went. of course you have to keep in mind we'll be discussing tactics here. we know all of the policies and facts that go behind us. some of the viewers might be experiencing those policies in substance for the first time and they might have a different take. now on to the tactics and how it appears, vice president gore? >> al gore: i said before the debate that i thought that romney was going to be a better performer tonight, because he knows how far behind he is and he had to bring his a game and i think he did. i don't think it was the best debate performance for president obama. i agree with you we'll have to see how the specifics on the substantive issues settle in as people reflect on them. but the first visceral reaction i had was that romney did himself some good in this debate. i'm strongly supporting
for now, from the university of denver i'm jim lehrer. thank you and good night. [ cheers and applause ] >> cenk: there you have it the first presidential debate of 2012. i have a feeling we have mixed feelings about how that debate went. of course you have to keep in mind we'll be discussing tactics here. we know all of the policies and facts that go behind us. some of the viewers might be experiencing those policies in substance for the first time and they might have a different take....
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this is about romney and big bird. >> i'm sorry, jim. i'm going to stop the subsidy to pbs. i love pbs. i love big bird. actually like you too. but i'm not going to keep on spending money and borrowing money from china to pay for it, no. 1. >> is that harsh? >> it's harsh when we're focusing on big bird. but romney's point was that too much of our debt has been accumulated by china and other countries as well. what he didn't mention was that china was buying that up when george w. bush was president as well. but the fact that i had to point that out on the air tonight is an illustration of what barack obama didn't do. the president frankly should have been politely in his face, saying that's not accurate, just like the presentation about romney's health care program. the president should have merely said the governor is being a hypocrite. he did this in massachusetts. and the president frankly didn't do that tonight. i think that's the reason that people said that they gave the nod to mitt romney tonight. in the end, we've seen how people are going to vote in november. we've
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thank you, jim. >> thank you, mr. president. the next debate, the vice presidential event on thursday, october 11th at center college in danville, kentucky. for now, from the university of denver, i'm jim lehrer, thank you, and g
thank you, jim. >> thank you, mr. president. the next debate, the vice presidential event on thursday, october 11th at center college in danville, kentucky. for now, from the university of denver, i'm jim lehrer, thank you, and g
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let's go to chris were. >> caller: hey, jim. big booyah from westchester, new york. >> my sister is up there. tell her i said hi. >> caller: i will. zynga and activision. do you think that activision could have a record fourth quarter? >> i don't like that division or that business. zynga too early to get into zynga. >> let's go to steve. steve-orino, you're up. >> caller: nice to meet you. >> how are you? >> caller: first off, i'd like to thank you for encouraging investors to manage their own money. if i can do it, anybody can do it. my question, to the t-mobile, psc deal. i would like to know, how will this affect the telecon industry? >> this is my theory on it. thank you about the kind words. i think t-mobile will merge with psc and bring it public and that will get it off telecon sheets. that's important. they don't want anything to do with t-mobile and that this is a way out. i don't think it will affect us so much. >>> ike in new york. >> caller: hey, jim. how are you? >> real good. how about you? >> caller: good, good,
let's go to chris were. >> caller: hey, jim. big booyah from westchester, new york. >> my sister is up there. tell her i said hi. >> caller: i will. zynga and activision. do you think that activision could have a record fourth quarter? >> i don't like that division or that business. zynga too early to get into zynga. >> let's go to steve. steve-orino, you're up. >> caller: nice to meet you. >> how are you? >> caller: first off, i'd like to thank...
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i believe in competition. >> jim, if i can respond very quickly. first of all, every study has shown medicare has lower administrative costs than private insurance does, which is why seniors are generally pretty happy with it, and private insurance has to make a profit. nothing wrong, that's what they do. and so you have higher administrative costs, plus profit, on top of that. and if you are going to save any money through what governor romney is proposing, what has to happen, the money has to come from somewhere. and when you move to a voucher system, you are putting seniors at the mercy of those insurance companies, and over time if traditional medicare has decayed or fallen apart, they are stuck. and this is the reason why aarp has said that your plan would weaken substantially and that's why they were supportive of the approach that we took. one last point i want to make. we do have to lower the cost of health care, not just in medicare and medicaid. but overall. >> we'll talk about that in a minute. >> that's a big topic. can we stay on medic
i believe in competition. >> jim, if i can respond very quickly. first of all, every study has shown medicare has lower administrative costs than private insurance does, which is why seniors are generally pretty happy with it, and private insurance has to make a profit. nothing wrong, that's what they do. and so you have higher administrative costs, plus profit, on top of that. and if you are going to save any money through what governor romney is proposing, what has to happen, the money...
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i'm sorry, jim, i'm going to stop the subsidy to pbs. i love pbs, i love big bird, i actually like you to. but i'm not going to keep spending money on things, borrowing money from china to pay for it. that's number one. number two, i'll take programs that are currently good programs but i think will be run more efficiently at the state level and send them to the state. number three, i'll make government more efficient, cut back the number of employees, combine some agencies into departments. my cutbacks will be done through attrition, by the way. this is the approach we have to take to get america to a balanced budget. the president said he'd cut the deficit in half. unfortunately, he doubled it. $1 trillion deficits for the last four years. the president's put in place as much public debt, almost as much debt held by the public as all prior presidents combined. >> mr. president, two minutes. >> when i walked into the oval office, i had more than a $1 trillion deficit greeting me. and we know where it came from. two wars that were paid f
i'm sorry, jim, i'm going to stop the subsidy to pbs. i love pbs, i love big bird, i actually like you to. but i'm not going to keep spending money on things, borrowing money from china to pay for it. that's number one. number two, i'll take programs that are currently good programs but i think will be run more efficiently at the state level and send them to the state. number three, i'll make government more efficient, cut back the number of employees, combine some agencies into departments. my...
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>> caller: hi, jim. this is eddie from brooklyn. >> i was in brooklyn last week, i love it there. >> caller: okay. i never miss your show. but i have a question for you. what is your opinion of leg now that they're working with j.c. penney? >> well, they've been a terrific performer. it's in the bed business. and it's got some automotive. this is a stock that herb greenburg and i have agreed on. really well run company and i value his judgment on whether a company is doing the right thing or not. let's go to joy in my home state of new jersey. >> caller: how you doing? >> real good, how are you? >> caller: i'm great. well, i became interested in generack holdings but i figured there would be disruptions in the power grid. i gave it a miss and it's had a great run. so jim, i'm just wondering if your opinion is it a buy at this time? >> i don't know. i don't know. i always presumed if you wanted to do portable generators the only play in town is cummins. we have to find by thursday whether this is a bull o
>> caller: hi, jim. this is eddie from brooklyn. >> i was in brooklyn last week, i love it there. >> caller: okay. i never miss your show. but i have a question for you. what is your opinion of leg now that they're working with j.c. penney? >> well, they've been a terrific performer. it's in the bed business. and it's got some automotive. this is a stock that herb greenburg and i have agreed on. really well run company and i value his judgment on whether a company is...
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thank you, jim. >> thank you, governor, thank
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jim, thank you, as well. >> thanks for having me on. >> jim o'neill. as far as european stocks are concerned, after good gains yesterday, a little softer this morning. ibex up a quarter of a percent. bond markets the key thing is that ten year yields continue to decline in spain. 5.79% just over 5% in italy. and on the currency markets, euro-dollar's rebounded. we got down to 1.28. nearly flat during the session. back up to around 1.29. dollar-yen coming in at 78.08. tom enders has called for a quick ending surrounding the proposed merger with bcht ae systems and eager to close the $45 billion tie up and ease concerns ahead of a uk regulatory deadline on october 10th. speaking in london, he said investors were reacting badly and the uncertainty can't go on much longer. for more we're joined by patricia in frankfurt. that's the question. he says the uncertainty complaint go can't go on, but that's all i see going on. >> absolutely. because so many parties have very big and important interests especially state interests in this potential merger deal. so
jim, thank you, as well. >> thanks for having me on. >> jim o'neill. as far as european stocks are concerned, after good gains yesterday, a little softer this morning. ibex up a quarter of a percent. bond markets the key thing is that ten year yields continue to decline in spain. 5.79% just over 5% in italy. and on the currency markets, euro-dollar's rebounded. we got down to 1.28. nearly flat during the session. back up to around 1.29. dollar-yen coming in at 78.08. tom enders has...
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>>> i'm jim cramer. welcome to my world. >> you need to get in the game. >> firms are going to go out of business, and he's nuts. they're nuts. they know nothing. >> i always like to say there's a bull market somewhere. >> "mad money," you can't afford to miss it. >>> hey, i'm cramer. welcome to "mad money." welcome to cramerica. other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job isn't just to entertain but to educate and teach you. call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. what would happen if a presidential contender ran on a platform that included as a central tenet that he wanted stocks to go higher? what would happen if either presidential candidate came out and said, i think the stock market should break out to all-time highs and buy, buy, buy! i'm going to do my best to get it there. that's something to ponder on the night of the first debate n a day where the averages once again couldn't punch their way substantially higher, the dow gaining just 12 points. s&p climbing .36%. nasda
>>> i'm jim cramer. welcome to my world. >> you need to get in the game. >> firms are going to go out of business, and he's nuts. they're nuts. they know nothing. >> i always like to say there's a bull market somewhere. >> "mad money," you can't afford to miss it. >>> hey, i'm cramer. welcome to "mad money." welcome to cramerica. other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job isn't just to entertain...
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jim, are you abandoning sprint? because t mobil is not going to buy them. i'm jcram jim kramer and i will you tomorrow. larry, what are you looking at tonight? >> mitt romney floats and idea to cap keyductions across the board. we set up our own debate. those are the topics we are going to tackle. and this evening. listen to vice president joe biden on the trail. it is the gift that keeps on giving. >> how they can justify. raising taxes in the middle class. it has been buried in the last four years. how in the lord's name. >> that is nodt a froidian slip. plus three stories that happen to break before the election. a leftist new york attorneyy general looking to bash banks and that is as phony as a $3 bill. also a judge strikes down pennsylvania's voter id law and the obama administration is telling companies it is okay to disregard the law when it comes to handing out pink slips in advance to big budget cuts. all three happening before the election. mitt romney has finally put meat on the bones of his tax reform idea. he floated the idea of a $17,000 cap
jim, are you abandoning sprint? because t mobil is not going to buy them. i'm jcram jim kramer and i will you tomorrow. larry, what are you looking at tonight? >> mitt romney floats and idea to cap keyductions across the board. we set up our own debate. those are the topics we are going to tackle. and this evening. listen to vice president joe biden on the trail. it is the gift that keeps on giving. >> how they can justify. raising taxes in the middle class. it has been buried in...
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maybe jim lehrer. format i love. much more demanding on jim but better for us. >> ifill: we're looking forward to what jim has to say tonight. it's a big night and we'll go to the convention hall and hoar from our own jim lehrer. >> lehrer: good evening, from the ma nag mess arena in colora. i welcome you to the first of the 2012 presidential debates between president barack obama, the democratic nominee, and former massachusetts governor, mitt romney, the republican. nominee. this debate and the next three, two presidential, one vice presidential, are sponsored by the commission on presidential debates. tonight's 90 minutes will be about domestic issues and will follow a format designed by the commission. there will be six roughly 15-minute segments with two-minute answers for the first question, then open discussion for the remainder of each segment. thousands of people offered suggestions on segment subjects or questions have a the internet and other mea, b i made the final selections, and for the record, they wer
maybe jim lehrer. format i love. much more demanding on jim but better for us. >> ifill: we're looking forward to what jim has to say tonight. it's a big night and we'll go to the convention hall and hoar from our own jim lehrer. >> lehrer: good evening, from the ma nag mess arena in colora. i welcome you to the first of the 2012 presidential debates between president barack obama, the democratic nominee, and former massachusetts governor, mitt romney, the republican. nominee. this...